May 2009
26 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
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With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books -...
With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books - NYTimes.com (via Gruber):
Others view digital piracy as a way for new readers to discover writers. Cory Doctorow, a novelist whose young adult novel “Little Brother” spent seven weeks on the New York Times children’s chapter books best-seller list last year, offers free electronic versions of his books on the same day they are published in...
Understanding Git Submodules →
I’ve been using Git full-time for over a year now, but I had not yet adopted Git’s submodule feature for my projects. Git submodules are functionally similar to Subversion’s svn:externals…
Variable argument lists in Cocoa →
This week I’ll talk about methods that take variable numbers of arguments, also known as variadic methods. I’ll show you the Objective-C syntax and implementation, give a quick rundown of the ways…
Device Detection →
Somebody asked me over Twitter for how to detect what device the code was running on. Since a tree fell in my backyard the other day, right on the telephone lines and taking out my internet service…
Magical iPhone View Controllers →
Every now and again while doing development you stumble upon something that makes you go, hmmmm. Those are normally the moments at which you have to ask yourself, “is this a bug or a feature”. If…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-10) →
Bizummy? Really?
[D]id I mention the word is terrible? It doesn’t combine to bring to mind any other connotations or conjure up a new twist on a familiar theme. Creating new words is a delicate art. Creating them by combining other words is no easier. I’d say leave it to the professionals, but obviously even copywriters have their bad days.
I see this same damned billboard every day when I’m driving...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-3) →
Rails Route Globbing
From Rails Routing from the Outside In:
Route globbing is a way to specify that a particular parameter should be matched to all the remaining parts of a route. For example
map.connect 'photo/*other', :controller => 'photos', :action => 'unknown',
This route would match photo/12 or /photo/long/path/to/12 equally well, creating an array of path segments as the value of...
The Varieties of Biblical Marriage →
dandrews:
We hear a lot about “biblical marriage” these days. Some of us might not be clear on what that means. The website Religious Tolerance has provided a helpful article on the types of marriage found in the pages of the bible.
I could not agree more! This is a great page to refer your Bible-thumping, quasi-Christian interlocutors to when trying (sometimes in vain) to convince them that...
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Encrypted Is A Binary State, AT&T
From the AT&T Wi-Fi FAQ page:
AT&T does not enable WEP (Wired Equivalency Protection) or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) on any of the wireless equipment used in its public Wi-Fi networks. Therefore, no special keys are required to use AT&T Wi-Fi public high speed Internet access. The AT&T Wi-Fi system supports secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) access. If you have VPN, AT&T...
Shameless Shit
This is some shameless shit. Let’s see… where have I seen that before?
